Girls LAX perfect on the week- The Girls Lacrosse team earned two big wins this week over Attleboro and Sharon to improve to 2-0-1- undefeated on the young season. Monday saw the squad travel toAttleboro for the first ever match-up with the Blue Bombardiers and the Dogs came away with an 18-8 victory. The team followed up that performance with another impressive effort on Wednesday, downing visiting Sharon, 12-5. Sam Sullivan (9), Mary McNeil (7), Kelli Stigas (4), Jackie Merrigan (3) and Caitlin Hutchinson (2) were the team's multiple goal-scorers on the week.
Baseball catches fire with two big upset wins- After starting off the season with a couple of frustrating, lopsided losses, the Baseball team stormed back with a vengeance this week, earning big wins over Franklin and Milford on Wednesday and Thursday respectively. The win over the Panthers on Wednesday was headlined by the performance of sophomore pitcher Griffin Jerrier who threw 6-shutout innings of baseball for the home side, leading the team to a 4-1 win. The victory over Milford came down to the final inning as the Dogs were tied with the SkyHawks 1-1 since the first. After loading the bases, Tommy Glynn's infield hit was enough to drive in the winning run in dramatic fashion. Sam Larson pitched brilliantly in the team's second consecutive win.
Softball earns first victory of the season- Saturday morning saw the Softball team earn its first win of the season in a huge, come-from-behind win over visiting Boston Latin Academy in the first game of a double-header. The squad trailed the visitors of BLA 6-0 after 4 innings but stormed back to force extra innings before earning the impressive 7-6 victory. The bats stayed hot in the second game, but BLA's did as well as the squad fell 18-11. Andrea Tamasi and Julia Nagel each had five hits on the day while freshman Hannah Link earned her first career victory for the mound. The event was also a fundraiser and celebration in honor of the late Bill Cravens Sr. as well as Billy Cravens Jr.- who is battling ALS.
Girls Track races past Sharon- The Girls Track team downed visiting Sharon on Tuesday, 80-56. Leading the team to the victory were Rachel Campagna who scored in 4 events for the 2nd consecutive meet, including 1st place finishes in the 400 and long jump. Cat Song won the mile and 2-mile, qualifying for the state meet in both. Sam Koplik won the 400 hurdles while Michaela Kelly won the 800 and ran a great anchor split on the winning 4x400 team- which also qualified for the states.
Although the Boys team did not put up many points in their match-up with Sharon, a bright spot was Somto Ofonagoro- who won the 100 with a state-qualifying time. His time was the fastest posted in the Hockomock this year and the 3rd fastest in the state.
Boys LAX blanks Attleboro- The Boys Lacrosse team shutout Attleboro, 12-0 on Monday before dropping two tough contests later in the week. The Attleboro win saw Chris Albert and Ben Lodge combine for the shutout in the cage while seven different Bulldogs found the back of the Attleboro net. Tommy Galvin and Ben O'Neil led the scoring but Austin Zannino had the goal of the week on a snipe that went just under the top bar.
Boys Tennis struggled through a winless week but looks to get back to winning ways with a busy week ahead. Nathan Maltz and Sam Riemer each earned a victory in this week's matches.
